Ashgar Farhadi does not want to be instrumentalized by Iranian power and he lets it be known.

The filmmaker responded earlier this week, via his Instagram account, to people accusing him of having an ambiguous position vis-à-vis Tehran.

"How can I be deceptively associated with a government whose extremist media have never ceased in recent years to destroy me, marginalize me, stigmatize me?

», He indignantly.

Asghar Farhadi even said he was ready to give up representing his country at the Oscars.

His latest feature film,

A Hero

, was chosen to defend the colors of Iran in the race for the best non-English film statuette.

"If the presentation of my film by Iran at the Oscars has led you to conclude that I am under your flag, I explicitly state that I have no problem rescinding this decision," he told the address of the authorities.

"I have explicitly expressed my point of view on the suffering that [the State] has imposed on the nation over the years", he assures, referring in particular to the repression of the demonstrations of 2017 and 2019 and the " cruel discrimination ”against women as well as the management of the health crisis.

"You confiscated my passport"

“I have never had the slightest affinity with your attitude and your backslid ideas [although] I have never spoken of the persecution you have subjected me to until now.

You confiscated my passport at the airport on several occasions and organized interrogation sessions, ”writes Ashgar Farhadi.

The filmmaker has already represented the Islamic Republic at the Oscars four times since 2009. 

A Separation

, released in 2011, received the Oscar and the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, the César for Best Foreign Film and the Golden Bear. gold of the Berlin Film Festival.

In 2017, it won the Oscar for best foreign film for

The Client

, a co-production with France.

Ashgar Farhadi, who lives between Iran and abroad, has made the majority of his films in his country.

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